john wrote:Ha ha ha! Funny you mention BVs. He said to me "you will have to do BVs though".
I am terrified of mics, more so then cameras.
I find it really hard to sing and play bass. Strumming a gat is easy, but bass....
What sort of stuff will you be doing?

Yeah it's pretty freaky at first. Depends on what you've got to do.
I've been doing BV's for about a third of the songs in my blues band and I've quite enjoyed it.
My theory is that it's better to stand up there and give it heaps than approch it half hearted.
Then people see enthusiasm and think you know what you're doing... even if it don't sound like it!
These new songs are with a different group. All originals. Acoustic versions of pop rock sort a stuff.
There's a lot more singing involved with these and the vocal parts are more 'detailed'.
I'm just picking my way through slowly and starting with the songs that are the easiest to sing while playing.

What kind of flats did you out on?
I just got some strings, but they are light gauge. Not digging them, to thin sounding.
The guy at the shop said you don't put heavy gauge on an acoustic. But he would not be the first shop guy to misinform....

john wrote:What kind of flats did you out on?
I just got some strings, but they are light gauge. Not digging them, to thin sounding.
The guy at the shop said you don't put heavy gauge on an acoustic. But he would not be the first shop guy to misinform....

Ernie balls. I'll probibly try the tomastics next time. These have too much winding on the ball end so they don't fit properly through the holes in the wooden bridge.
What bass did you put the lights on?